Why Is Geometry More Than Math for These 4 Artists?
Geometry in art is more than just lines and shapes; it’s a way of expressing how we see, think, and feel. For many artists, structure becomes a language. It gives shape to emotions that are often too quiet to name and too complex to explain. Through circles, grids, and patterns, they find a sense of balance, rhythm, and meaning in everyday life.
What makes geometric art special is how it holds both logic and feeling at the same time. Behind every angle and curve, there’s intention but there’s also intuition. The precision isn’t cold; it’s thoughtful. The repetition isn’t rigid; it’s calming. These artworks remind us that order can be beautiful, and that even simple shapes can hold depth when touched by a human hand.
Across the world, geometric artists are redefining how we connect with art. Some use bold colors to speak about energy and emotion, while others find peace in soft lines and quiet symmetry. Together, their works show us how geometry isn’t just about math or measurement, it’s about connection, reflection, and how we make sense of the world around us.
At the Arts to Hearts Project, we love exploring the many ways artists turn ideas into visuals that stay with you long after you’ve seen them. In this article, we’ll introduce you to some brilliant artists who are redefining what geometric art can be thoughtful, expressive, and deeply human.
Matthew Franz @mjfranzart
Matthew Franz sees geometry not as cold precision, but as a way to communicate feelings. Based in Philadelphia, he creates geometric and hard-edge paintings that are bold, balanced, and full of quiet rhythm. His journey began in the 1980s, when the energy of street art and graffiti caught his attention. The shapes, the colors, the structure they stayed with him. Over time, those early influences evolved into a practice that blends clarity with emotion. What makes Matthew’s work stand out is how personal it feels, even when built from sharp lines and measured angles.
His paintings often explore movement and space through layers of color and form, creating moments that feel both ordered and alive. Titles like “Bells Bleed and Bloom” and “Sunrises in the 15th System” hint at his thoughtful process, a mix of structure and story, where each piece carries a sense of quiet reflection. For Matthew, geometry is more than design; it’s a language of connection. Every edge, every color choice, becomes a way of expressing emotion and memory. His art speaks to the balance between control and intuition, between what we build and what we feel. Through his work, he shows that even in the most structured forms, there’s room for warmth, movement, and meaning.
Ghizlane Agzenaï @ghizlaneagzenai
Ghizlane Agzenaï builds her world through color, balance, and geometry. Born in Tangier, Morocco, and now based in Casablanca, she creates paintings and murals that feel both grounded and full of life. Her geometric forms sharp lines, layered shapes, and blocks of bright color come together in works she calls totems. Each one carries energy and meaning, a symbol of connection between people, space, and spirit. Ghizlane’s path as an artist didn’t begin in traditional studios or art schools. She is self-taught, and her first canvases were walls. In the streets of Casablanca and beyond, she began painting large, geometric murals that instantly caught attention for their clarity and warmth. From those beginnings, her work grew to span continents appearing on buildings, gallery walls, and public installations in cities such as Paris, Vienna, and Barcelona. Yet wherever her art travels, it remains deeply connected to her sense of place and purpose. What makes her art stand out is the feeling it leaves behind. Even when painted on large walls, her totems never feel imposing; they invite rather than command. The way she layers colour gives each shape a sense of depth and warmth, transforming simple forms into something that breathes.
Her work carries optimism not loud or forced, but grounded, built from the belief that art can create peace in the spaces we share. In her process, Ghizlane pays close attention to materials and environment. She paints on wood, canvas, and concrete, adapting her technique to the surface in front of her. Each project starts with sketches ideas about shape, color, and proportion before evolving into something more instinctive. Beyond her visual work, Ghizlane’s practice carries a sense of purpose that extends into community and culture. Through her murals and exhibitions, she brings color and meaning into shared spaces, transforming walls into places of reflection.Ghizlane Agzenaï’s work shows that geometry, when guided by heart, can hold emotion, history, and hope. Her paintings don’t speak in grand gestures; they speak quietly, with strength. In her hands, color becomes voice, and shape becomes spirit. Through her totems, she invites us to look closer, to stand still for a moment, and to remember that harmony much like art begins from within.
Liam Roberts @liamrobertsdesign
Liam Roberts creates art that feels both precise and peaceful. Based in Cheltenham, UK, creates geometric relief sculptures, paintings and prints that feel deliberate yet open both structured and warm. His background in design gives his work its structure: clean edges, clear colour blocks, considered balance. But what lets his pieces feel alive is how he uses that design knowledge to reflect how we live and move in space the rooms we occupy, the objects we pass, the rhythms of our day. He has described his work as creating “spatial and colour harmony” through geometric, abstract forms. Where his art becomes meaningful is in its connection to human spaces and moments. His reliefs often explore the places we inhabit, the interactions we have, the rhythm of our surroundings. He sees geometry not as cold or distant, but as something that can reflect life, behaviour, and the world around us.
In Roberts’s process you’ll find both planning and freedom. He’ll begin with sketches of shapes and colours seen in daily life, a piece of packaging, a building’s shadow, a moment of light, then work them into compositions that feel both intentional and alive. His art invites viewers into that space between control and openness: where structure holds space for feeling. What makes Liam’s art human is that it doesn’t hide the maker behind the making. You sense someone carefully choosing each state of green, blue, pink, each arc or rectangle, thinking about how it will live on a wall, how it will make someone feel. His reliefs and paintings are gestures of hospitality walls that say, “Welcome here. Pause. Feel.” Through his geometric work he reminds us that structure doesn’t mean rigidity; it can become comfort. Shapes offer stability, and colour offers warmth. In Liam Roberts’ vision, geometry becomes a way of being present, intentional, and quietly expressive.
Kat Hernden @kathernden
For Kat Hernden, creating isn’t a hobby it’s essential to her well-being. Originally rooted in a practical path and the familiar rhythm of teaching, she eventually reached a point where ignoring her creative impulse became impossible. Art called her back, insistently. When she finally picked up a paintbrush again, it wasn’t just a choice it was a return to herself. Kat’s work celebrates geometry as a stabilizing force in a world that often feels unpredictable. “Patterns are everywhere,” she shares in nature, in architecture, in the details we overlook every day. Her shapes become anchors, reminders that beneath the noise, there is structure and order waiting to support us.
But geometry isn’t the whole story. Kat stitches thread directly into her canvases, honoring a lifelong connection to needlework. The sewn lines introduce warmth, a pulse turning crisp edges into something felt and familiar. Precision meets softness. Design meets vulnerability. The artwork becomes a space where control and emotion find balance together. What makes Kat’s work deeply human is this union of the logical and the tender. The shapes bring grounding; the thread brings care. Each piece quietly says: the world may be overwhelming, but you still matter here. Through patience, dedication, and heart, Kat transforms geometry into a language of belonging, a reminder that creativity can restore us, guide us, and help us find our place again.
Geometry has always existed around us in architecture, in nature, in rhythm but through these artists, it becomes something deeply personal. Their lines and colours remind us that structure can hold emotion, and that precision can still carry heart. Each of them uses shape as a way to communicate what can’t always be said aloud: balance, curiosity, presence, and care.
From walls to canvases, from cities to screens, they show that geometry isn’t about perfection it’s about perspective. It’s about how we see, how we build, and how we find connection through form. Whether painted, drawn, or digitally rendered, their works invite us to pause and feel the quiet harmony that exists between order and imagination.
At the Arts to Hearts Project, we celebrate these artists who bring soul to structure and warmth to design. Their creations remind us that art doesn’t just decorate the world, it shapes the way we see it. And through their geometry, we’re reminded that even the simplest lines can lead us back to what connects us all.
